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TypeScript backend-as-a-service with a reactive database, server functions, auth and file storage for full-stack and AI apps.
Open-source Stable Diffusion/Kandinsky image generator with a free daily tier and paid plans for faster, commercial use.
Managed cloud hosting and one-click deploy for the open-source OpenClaw personal AI assistant, on credit-based plans.
Fast, developer-friendly open-source search engine and AI retrieval platform offering full-text, semantic, and hybrid search.
Data-annotation platform with AI-assisted labeling tools and team workflows for building ML training datasets.
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- ✦Reactive real-time database
- ✦TypeScript server functions (queries/mutations/actions)
- ✦Built-in authentication
- ✦Cron jobs and backend workflows
- ✦File storage, text and vector search
- ✦ACID transactions; open-source/self-host
- ✦Text-to-image and image-to-image generation
- ✦Open-source codebase
- ✦Free daily image quota with slower generation
- ✦Paid tiers with faster and parallel generation
- ✦Commercial usage rights on paid plans
- ✦Optional credit top-ups on paid plans
- ✦One-click managed cloud deployment
- ✦Self-hosting option on Mac mini, Windows or Linux
- ✦100+ app and messaging integrations
- ✦Choice of Claude, GPT, Gemini or local models
- ✦Credit-based monthly subscription plans
- ✦Modular skills/plugins
- ✦Sub-50ms search-as-you-type
- ✦Full-text, semantic, and hybrid search
- ✦Vector storage for RAG and similarity queries
- ✦Multimodal and federated search
- ✦Filtering, faceting, sorting, and geosearch
- ✦Managed cloud or self-hosted open source
- ✦AI-assisted data annotation tools
- ✦Training-data platform (BasicAI Cloud)
- ✦Team and project management
- ✦Annotation services
- →Building real-time reactive apps
- →Backends for AI agents
- →Replacing Firebase or Supabase
- →Full-stack TypeScript development
- →Hobbyists trying AI image generation for free
- →Creators needing private, commercially licensed AI art
- →Developers wanting an open-source Stable Diffusion front end
- →Run a hosted personal AI assistant without server upkeep
- →Connect an AI agent to messaging apps
- →Automate email, calendar and workflows
- →Self-host for full data control
- →Adding fast site or app search
- →Building AI/RAG retrieval pipelines
- →E-commerce and media search experiences
- →Semantic search over private data
- →Labeling images and data for ML models
- →Managing annotation teams and projects
- →Producing training datasets at scale